Why I’m Pro-Detente with Russia - RAI with Stephen Cohen (5/5)

I realized it wasn’t the Soviet Union that was the great danger, it was the potential of nuclear war, and it’s still the case today - says Stephen Cohen on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay
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[@danielortega2441]

I am 19.... First time stumbled on this channel.....it's a gold mine........make more of these..... This whole series was great

[@mohamedelmaazi6725]

There is so much more from them.

[@TheCarrottop23]

Welcome to the actual left

[@dubjay111]

Real news was great but no more since Paul jay got ousted

[@mrp9498]

This man should be on the National Security Council

[@MrDXRamirez]

Now that does not make any sense. The NSA has a primary constituency, i.e, the military and the GOP has a primary constituency, i.e., the mutlinational corporations. Cohen is totally unacceptable to that establishment. If anything they would try to corrupt him for his knowledge, if not, isolate him. He is unelectable from a GOP standpoint, they need someone who can get two important votes besides your vote, they need the religious and blue collar vote. Trump stole the blue collar vote from the establishment, I doubt, he can win the evangelical vote with his background.

[@TheEgbon]

Have you seen the people on national security council?

[@tymjar]

With Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson: Secretary of State and Prof. Andrew J. Bacevich: Secretary of Defense = Sane perspectives on rapidly declining power of the late-stage U.S. Empire.

[@beesplaining1882]

He absolutely should. The problem now is the establishment have smeared him so many times and have branded him a conspiracy theorist and a bit crazy, so that would be hard for him to overcome.

[@CAY7607]

Tim Jarvis definitely, and Alfred W. McCoy.

[@benparkinson8314]

A remarkable man indeed. I have valued his contrabution to understanding for better than half my life.

[@MrRicardo11]

I only came across Professor Stephen Cohen 8 years ago and I had been listening ever since. He was a knowledgeable voice of reason and a gentleman. A man of intellect and integrity. I would have liked to hear his views about what is going on today in Ukraine. Unfortunately he passed away with lung cancer during the pandemic about 14 months ago. He's a real loss to our world and we will never see his likes again. R.I.P Professor Cohen and thank you for your shared knowledge 🙏 👏

[@elizabethferrari3647]

My favorite kind of discussion. Thank you.

[@potterzebra]

As teenagers the 1950's, my crowd was attracted to the satire in MAD Magazine, which made fun of everything from cigarette advertising to the McCarthy hearings. The editors were both hip and progressive, and made a lifelong skeptic of me. We were tuned in enough to know that Cuba was a mafia cesspool, and we rooted for Castro.

[@OlegLefterov]

Paul and Stephen thank you sooo much for this series of interviews! This is the true journalism at its best!

[@liagog]

thank you .. i always learn more when i get the chance to hear from Cohen

[@LitoMasters]

Prof Cohen has been at it for longer, than I am alive. Cant imagine what it feels like to see everything deteriorating each year, politicians doing oposite things etc. No wonder he is so tired of carrying the message, hope someone else will pick up the torch and cross the line into real politics soon

[@rdpatterson2682]

Great series. Thank you.

[@Hands2HealNow]

Great going with this interview.

[@shakaD88]

Stephen Cohen is a great and very charismatic guest on many levels. I remember in some of the previous, regular segments, where TRN interviewed him on current affairs, he just sounded incredibly exasperated at the stupidity of US media groupthink and the whole Russiagate narrative. But here we get to see his erudite, experienced, elderly scholar perspective, shining light on Russia and US in general. However, I will never forget, how well he put it in another segment, where he said something like "nations are on their own clock", meaning just because Russia functions now as it functions and it didn't jump out of the Soviet period as a ready-made liberal democracy, it shouldn't be dismissed as some kind of permanently "barbaric" and backward country, which always seems to be the underlying assumption of many Western liberals, especially the US pundits. It's also a deep truth abut human history, every true student of history should be aware of.

[@robertjohnson4809]

Excellent! Brilliant interview subject.

[@brianbooker8736]

We live in a very complicated world with a complicated history. A several hundred word comment can't accurately critique it; just like a five part series can't accurately critique it. Researching history allows us the ability to see if there is a reoccurring design that can be critiqued. When I study history I find a reoccurring design of a Rentier class logic and a logic for everyone else. A logic that says the Rentier has a right rule and make the rules. In Feudalism that was the aristocracy. America was founded on propaganda; the American Rentier class rule over an Empire that thinks they can make the rules for the world. During Industrial Capitalism Socialism was the threat but because accumulated money Capital needed a place to go we now have Finance Capitalism. With Finance Capitalism any country that doesn't let money capital confiscate their tangible assets is a threat. Exxon is suing Cuba's Nationalized oil Company and the US has decided to install their own president in Venezuela by using the US Dollar as weapon of mass destruction. Australia's Banking system is entering into a 2008 style Financial crisis; just like in 2008 when the Banks were to big to fail; the Australian Government will not let their Banks fail. The one thing Australia doesn't have is a World reserve currency like the US had in 2008 and this could trigger a Global crisis. There will be no detente with a New York Rentier as President. The Rentier class is so in love with making money picking a fight with a country that can fight back isn't profitable. What people should be scared of is Israel. This country has an agenda and has no problem sacrificing American soldiers to achieve that agenda.

[@anglosaxon7806]

wow great points at the end .

[@abemartin6297]

I have only met one Russian in the US over my life time so I do not view the "Russians" as a threat to me. In fact he was the first person who mentioned the fact that we are not free citizens even though we "think" we are and proceeded to point out the facts of why he observed that while his first visit to the US and that was 26 years ago..

[@runsinsneakers3196]

You've met more, but they were all undercover KGB

[@brooklynknite]

@Кот Доступа it must be the same over in Russia. You guys not being free that is.

[@gwynnoneill2247]

Really good segment; asking the crucial, turning point, questions. Very interesting. In fact I never knew until now that at 1917 the peasants took the land!! and that Stalin in effect took it back in 1929. The light dawns. However, I NEVER believed the CIA did not know the Soviet Union was crumbling and we were all suprised, ha, when it did.

[@cmorea]

What is Professor Cohen’s lapel button?

[@tesscot]

Lincoln wasn't originally from Kentucky so his mind set wasn't as a Kentuckian. His parents were anti-slavery. He was raised in that mindset. Not that I think a child has to take his parent's mindset but in Lincoln's case he did.

[@jeffborders5526]

Non aggression pacts never last forever.

[@nemo3815]

Wow, that must have been an inordinately hard, complex decision ! Peace or Mutually Assured Destruction . Gee, that would have taken most of us most of our lifetimes to figure out ! .

[@artistsometimes2729]

9:44 the key point 19:35

[@macrosense]

The idea is that China was too powerful to flex on. So various American careerists try to flex on Russia.

[@ARMRoulette]

Mister Trump! Bolton out Cohen in why are we can’t have just that even once?

[@bumblebee9337]

Why I'm Pro-Oxygen.

[@ajisenramen888]

I am pro-Peace

[@stephengrahn9361]

I would urge everyone to read Antony Suttons books Wall St and the Bolshevik Revolution and Wall St and the Third Reich. He was a professor at Stanford and worked with the Hoover Institute back in the 50s and 60s. He had access to massive amount of documents plust the all the evidence from Nuremberg was brought their for a while. He was a well respected its amazing how his work has been buried.

[@brooklynknite]

Is that the book cause im going to buy it.

[@stephengrahn9361]

@@brooklynknite yes they are two seperate books

[@stephengrahn9361]

@@brooklynknite the Third Reich book is titled Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler.

[@nbach2202]

75 of cold was means there is no cold war. It's a wish and desire to gave a war any war in perpetrate.

[@nutbagus]

New Marshal Plan + GREEN NEW DEAL & INCLUDE Russia .

[@atypicaltexan3834]

Detente is not profitable

[@runsinsneakers3196]

Yes, but it keeps us alive